[Groff] tbl and output of first column

[Peter Karman]

Hello,

Please excuse me if this question has been answered elsewhere. My
attempts to search the mail archive were stymied, and I cannot find this
problem documented anywhere.

I am attempting to format the following code with tbl 1.17 (both alone
as as part of the groff -t command), and get the following odd
behaviour. This happens on Linux 2.4, Irix 6.5 and Sun 2.8, so I'm
assuming it's something in my code or a lack of an option somewhere
or... ?

The problem: the first column, first row will not wrap automatically and
will always remain on a single line. This causes the whole table to push
to the right, with the leftmost column being awkwardly wide. Hyphenation
does not seem to be the problem. I have tried several combinations of
column width instructions; none work as I want them to.

The code (NOTE that the tab delimiter is a ^G or bell character, which
may not translate in email):

.PP
Table 1\&. Interactions of Streams Factors
.TS
tab();
l l l l l l.
UDB \fBprohibit-streams\fP permissions T{
 UDB \fBprohibit-streams-override\fP permissions 
T}T{
 \fBcld\fR(1) load-time streams coherency assessment 
T}T{
 \fBcld\fR(1) \fBstreams=\fP directive argument 
T}T{
 Resulting data streams default 
T}T{
 Resulting data streams permitted 
T}
T{
 OK 
T}T{
 N/A 
T}T{
 Coherent 
T}T{
 \fBdontcare\fP 
T}T{
 On 
T}T{
 Yes 
T}
T{
 OK 
T}T{
 N/A 
T}T{
 Coherent 
T}T{
 \fByes\fP 
T}T{
 On 
T}T{
 Yes 
T}
T{
 OK 
T}T{
 N/A 
T}T{
 Coherent 
T}T{
 \fBno\fP 
T}T{
 Off 
T}T{
 No 
T}
T{
 OK 
T}T{
 OK 
T}T{
 Incoherent 
T}T{
 \fBdontcare\fP 
T}T{
 Off 
T}T{
 Yes 
T}
T{
 OK 
T}T{
 OK 
T}T{
 Incoherent 
T}T{
 \fByes\fP 
T}T{
 On 
T}T{
 Yes 
T}
T{
 OK 
T}T{
 OK 
T}T{
 Incoherent 
T}T{
 \fBno\fP 
T}T{
 Off 
T}T{
 No 
T}
T{
 OK 
T}T{
 Prohibit 
T}T{
 Incoherent 
T}T{
 N/A 
T}T{
 Off 
T}T{
 No 
T}
T{
 Prohibit 
T}T{
 N/A 
T}T{
 N/A 
T}T{
 N/A 
T}T{
 Off 
T}T{
 No 
T}
.TE


Any help appreciated.

pek
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